Love the new scape. It's simple but I find it very appealing. With the simple/modern looking light and lily pipes, it really complements the style.

Thanks for your comment, Matt. I wanted a self sufficient aquarium like the Walstad way but didn't want a jungle in the aquarium. Just visited Mies Van der Rohe's pavillion in Barcelona a few months ago. That's sort of my inspiration for this scape.

So, at the beginning of the day, I had the shrimps in a vase. I compared the water hardness in both the vase and the tank. The vase's water was very hard, and the tank's water was very soft.

I filled my mister up with RO water and sprayed it into the vase at the rate of a few squirts every 10 or so minutes. And, I topped off my tank with a gallon of Crystal Geyser spring water. After about a few hours or so, I tested the water again. The results showed that water from the vase and tank had close to equal all 6 parameters that the Tetra test strip tests.

Then, I put some tank water into the vase to acclimate the shrimps. Finally, I moved the shrimps over to their new home.

About a week ago before I started rescaping, I had 5 snowballs and 2 crs. When I moved the shrimps over to the vase, so I can rescape the tank, I counted only 4 snowballs and 2 crs. And, I didn't even find a body. Do shrimps eat the entire body of their fallen comrades?

I have a slight update. I upped to an ADA 60P. I transferred everything from the 60F to the new tank. Now, I wonder whether the Cal Aqua Nano pipes are too short for the new tank? The tank is probably not getting sufficient water circulation. What do you guys think?

1) i need more filtration
2) my sole yellow neo will be bye bye sooner or later

As for filtration, I have an eheim 2236 canister and an aqueon quiet flow 15. the canister is harder to use in my new set up because of the shorter tank causing tighter tube bends. the aqueon is slightly more robust than the tom's filter i think. might have to go with that for now. but, it takes up more space in the tank. sucks.

Lastly, i can't find my amano in the tank and my erios is growing new leaves but is also somewhat browning.

this morning, i removed half the water from the tank in order to lighten it. pushed the tank back so it's flush against the back of the stand. this is so i can install the lily pipes onto the back of the tank.

i rather put it to the side of the tank rather than the back, but i didn't want to put the tank so far to the side of the stand. so, now the intake is all the way to the left and outflow is all the way to the right.

it won't create ideal water circulation but it should be good enough. the eheim 2236 should clean the tank up pretty good despite the non-ideal water circulation.

i dumped all the animals i mentioned above into the tank after the cansiter filter was set up. i like the way the tank looks much better now with the lily pipe and with a higher fish population.

i have some red eye balloon tetras i don't know what to do with. they were from my 60p that i took down. i gave them a new home in a aquatop 8" cube. there's 5 of them in there with 2 bumblebee catfish. got a tom's internal filter, an aquatop 15w heater and an aqualighter nano led. the led is overkill but it works as a lamp for our kitchen and living room.

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